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The graphics card with the hottest looks!
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I like it too. I have since the 780. It's the one reference cooler they have come up with that is not only sturdy (made of metal), but also cools well. I do think the bare aluminum finish of before though looked more stylish.I think the new Titan X is a contender for hottest looking card.
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I'm thinking about getting one of these. Still kick ass for an older card. I just wonder what is the limit of this card. Let's say you put all in high settings and 1080P what is the latest game it can plays?
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Cards with hottest looks would still be the Fermies, replete with heatpipes that look like the headers off a muscle car, and just as hot too. 
You could boil water on those suckers.
You could boil water on those suckers.
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It's in my wife's second PC. It's for her to use as a research tool while she's writing her books. Her main rig has an Asus GTX-570 in it.
I love to upgrade all of the PCs in the house, but she's threatened me if I touch either one of them.
I can't remember how it gamed, but it was good in it's day.
I bought a brand new MSI Radeon 2GB HD-6450 to replace it, but she nixed that idea.
It's on the shelf, probably going in the next office PC I build for someone.
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Personally I really like the Nvidia 6800 Ultra reference board. The cooler wasn't too noisy and kept the card pretty cool aswell.
Concerning modern cards, I love the Lightning cooler design
Btw this card isn't actually a regular 780 Lightning, I wrote about it here in the rare gfx thread: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/rare-gpus-unreleased-gpus.176929/page-4#post-3264856
And for Dual GPUs, I think the XFX 5970 Black Edition Limited was a looker. Fan glows red when turned on
Oh yea, and almost forgot the glorious Gigabyte GTX680 Super Overclock Windforce X5
Concerning modern cards, I love the Lightning cooler design
Btw this card isn't actually a regular 780 Lightning, I wrote about it here in the rare gfx thread: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/rare-gpus-unreleased-gpus.176929/page-4#post-3264856
And for Dual GPUs, I think the XFX 5970 Black Edition Limited was a looker. Fan glows red when turned on
Oh yea, and almost forgot the glorious Gigabyte GTX680 Super Overclock Windforce X5
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Personally I really like the Nvidia 6800 Ultra reference board. The cooler wasn't too noisy and kept the card pretty cool aswell.
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Concerning modern cards, I love the Lightning cooler design
Btw this card isn't actually a regular 780 Lightning, I wrote about it here in the rare gfx thread: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/rare-gpus-unreleased-gpus.176929/page-4#post-3264856
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And for Dual GPUs, I think the XFX 5970 Black Edition Limited was a looker. Fan glows red when turned on
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Oh yea, and almost forgot the glorious Gigabyte GTX680 Super Overclock Windforce X5
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How much that Super overclock card back in time and what it looks like compared to performances of today cards ?
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what a BEAST!
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That Gigabyte GTX680 Super Overclock is one of the strangest cards I've seen
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I bought it second hand for 220€ about a 1,5 years ago, original price no idea... Performance was awesome, it was overclocked to 1254MHz boost clock by Gigabyte which is more than an average 680 card managed to do with manual OC. It went all the way up to 1370MHz stable in BF3 without fiddling with voltages. And for benching, see here
Ah yea, compared to todays cards. Well, I easily managed to catch a GTX 780 reference/R9 290 with that card, which makes it about 15-20% slower than a GTX970 (with less Memory of course).
When it comes to GFX I'm pretty much into the cooling systems, and that one is just insane Here's a shot from the side, massive 3 slot cooler. At 100% the fans spun with 10.000 rpm and kept the card below 50°C lol. Sounded like a server rack too
Ah yea, compared to todays cards. Well, I easily managed to catch a GTX 780 reference/R9 290 with that card, which makes it about 15-20% slower than a GTX970 (with less Memory of course).
When it comes to GFX I'm pretty much into the cooling systems, and that one is just insane
Here's a shot from the side, massive 3 slot cooler. At 100% the fans spun with 10.000 rpm and kept the card below 50°C lol. Sounded like a server rack too
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well i though that cooler will be less effective., also the card, due overclock settings is pretty power hungry right?I bought it second hand for 220€ about a 1,5 years ago, original price no idea... Performance was awesome, it was overclocked to 1254MHz boost clock by Gigabyte which is more than an average 680 card managed to do with manual OC. It went all the way up to 1370MHz stable in BF3 without fiddling with voltages. And for benching, see here
When it comes to GFX I'm pretty much into the cooling systems, and that one is just insane
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thanks for sharing dude!
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Glad you like it 
Of course it's not a power saver with hard overclocking, that bench run was at 1515MHz GPU and 1,4V (soldered a mod for that), and the card reached nearly 200% of the original Power Target. That would be about 450W
At the usual 24/7 OC I reckon it was still more power saving than a HD7970 reference card. So no drama there.
The fans on the cooler are very small so of course they need high RPM to move enough air. Except for that, the cooling system is suprisingly efficient. Much much much too big for that little Nvidia chip, but keeps the card so darn cool (9 heatpipes for the GPU, 4 for the VRM and MosFETs^^)
Of course it's not a power saver with hard overclocking, that bench run was at 1515MHz GPU and 1,4V (soldered a mod for that), and the card reached nearly 200% of the original Power Target. That would be about 450W At the usual 24/7 OC I reckon it was still more power saving than a HD7970 reference card. So no drama there.
The fans on the cooler are very small so of course they need high RPM to move enough air. Except for that, the cooling system is suprisingly efficient. Much much much too big for that little Nvidia chip, but keeps the card so darn cool (9 heatpipes for the GPU, 4 for the VRM and MosFETs^^)
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interesting fact!
thanks for sharing again
thanks for sharing again
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Yep exactly That's by the way a really big vapor chamber on top of all that other cooling madness.
That's by the way a really big vapor chamber on top of all that other cooling madness.
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